Awards

Awards 2024

ISMM Distinguished Career Award

Prof. Jörg Neugebauer receives the 2024 ISMM Distinguished Career Award from the International Society on Materials Modeling (ISMM). The award, which recognizes an individual who has advanced the field of materials modeling through innovative, career-long research contributions, was presented at the 11^th Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM) conference in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Alexander-von-Humboldt-Fellowship

Dr. Baptiste Bienvenu received an Alexander-von-Humboldt-Fellowship, Dez 2024 – Nov 2026

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Wilhelm Bessel research award from the Alexander-von-Humbodt Foundation

Prof. Bin Wang (University of Oklahoma, USA) received a Wilhelm Bessel research award from the Alexander-von-Humbodt Foundation hosted by the CM-department.

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First prize at the Large Language Model (LLM) Hackathon for Applications in Materials and Chemistry

Dr. Jan Janssen and his team won the first prize at the Large Language Model (LLM) Hackathon for Applications in Materials and Chemistry with their interface for LLMs to compute fundamental atomistic material properties using pyiron.

International exchange Award from the Royal Society (UK)

Prof. Nils Warnken (University of Birmingham) receives the international exchanges award from the Royal Society (UK) to be hosted by the CM department.

Travel Scholarships

Dr. Ageo Meier de Andrade received two travel scholarships, namely from The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg for the 11th Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM) conference in Prague, Czech Republic, and from the Adlerbertska Research Foundation for the XXII meeting of The Brazilian Materials Research Society (B-MRS), Santos, Brazil.

DFG Review Board member

Prof. Dr. Erik Bitzek is elected to the Review board of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

APS Outstanding Referee

Christoph Freysoldt has been recognized as Outstanding Referee for the Physics Review journal family. The APS Editors select the honorees based on the quality, number, and timeliness of their reports.

The Outstanding Referee program was instituted in 2008 to recognize scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. In 2024, 156 Outstanding Referees of the roughly 91,600 currently active referees were selected. See also the full list of APS Outstanding Referees.

Awards 2023

Alexander-von-Humboldt-Fellowship

Dr. Jing Yang received an Alexander-von-Humboldt-Fellowship, Jan 2024 – Dec 2025.

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J. H. Block Lecture at the Atom Probe Tomography and Microscopy Conference 2023

Dr. Christoph Freysoldt was awarded the J. H. Block Lecture at the Atom Probe Tomography and Microscopy Conference 2023 in Leuven, Belgium and elected to the Steering Committee of the International Field Emission Society.

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Alexander Kuznetsov Prize for Theoretical Electrochemistry

Dr. Mira Todorova is awarded the Alexander Kuznetsov Prize for Theoretical Electrochemistry from the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). This prize is awarded every two years to a living individual who has made groundbreaking contribution to the theory of electrochemical phenomena.

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MPG Sign Up! For Leadership Carreer Development Programme

Dr. Daria Smirnova was selected to participate in the MPG Sign Up! For Leadership Carreer Development Programme.

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International postdoc fellowship

Dr. Ageo Meier de Andrade receives an International postdoc fellowship from the Swedish research council to foster his collaboration with the CM department.

Outstanding reviewer 2022 award

Dr. Christoph Freysoldt receives the Acta Materialia outstanding reviewer 2022 award.

Outstanding reviewer 2022 award

Dr. Ali Tehranchi receives the Acta Journals (Acta Materials, Scripta Materialia) outstanding reviewer 2022 award.

Awards 2022

MPG Sign Up! Career Development Programme

Dr. Jing Yang was selected to participate in the MPG Sign Up! Career Development Programme.

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Finalist for the Gerhard-Ertl-Young-Investigator Award

Dr. Suhyun Yoo was selected as one of the 5 finalist for the Gerhard-Ertl-Young-Investigator Award.

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Poster price at the Psi-k conference in Lausanne

Dr. Sheuly Ghosh wins a poster price for her work on the short range order and phase stability in a CrCoNi medium entropy alloy presented at the Psi-k conference in Lausanne.

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Poster price at the Psi-k conference in Lausanne

Florian Deißenbeck wins a poster price for his work related to modelling electrochemical solid/liquid interfaces at the Psi-k conference in Lausanne.

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CSC PhD exchange student scholarship

Baoying Dou will spend an year in the CM department having received an CSC PhD exchange student scholarship.

Coffee with Max-Planck

Stefano Faletta, Sean Kavanagh and Bingxin Li each spent a week at the CM department having received the “Coffee with Max-Planck” award.

Editor’s Choice 2021

Dr. Fritz Körmann receives the 2021 Editor’s Choice article by the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion.

Poster price at the International European Conference on Fracture

Benedikt Eggle-Sievers receives the best poster price at the International European Conference on Fracture (ECF23) for his work on crack-dislocation interactions in Tungsten.

Awards 2021

CALPHAD 2021 Best Paper Award

Dr. Halil Ibrahim Sözen, Dr. Tilmann Hickel and Prof. Dr. Jörg Neugebauer received the CALPHAD 2021 Best Paper Award for the paper “Impact of magnetism on the phase stability of rare-earth based hard magnetic materials”, Calphad 68, 101731 (2020).

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Awards 2020

FP-RESOMUS Fellowship

Dr. Zhenyu Wang received an FP-RESOMUS Fellowship.

Awards 2019 and earlier

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